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...ways of doing things, both can spare words, both have a certain primitive honesty. Butler, now gray, portly, 63, wearer of double glasses, comes of an old New Bedford family. At 16 he was at work in a New Bedford shoe factory. Later he went away from New Bed- ford to go into law and politics. Now he runs, on the side, a few cotton mills in New Bedford...
...business of congressional investigating will largely stand or fall on the issue of a legal affray which started at Washington. The case of Harry Ford Sinclair, charged with contempt for refusal to answer ten questions propounded by the Senate Public Lands Committee, came up in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...House passed, some weeks ago, the McKenzie Bill accepting Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals. The Senate Agricultural Committee, considering the bill, developed a tendency far less favorable to Mr. Ford. Much testimony was taken; some new offers were submitted, and the impression began to get about that other offers were more favorable...
...testimony for the auto manufacturer's bill was mostly of the "trust Ford" variety. Five leading suggestions have been made for disposing .of the Shoals project. The chief features of the proposals...
...James Martin Miller telegraphed The Dearborn Independent and the telegram was read into the record of the Senate Agriculture Committee, that in an interview the President had said: "It is my hope that Mr. Ford will not do or say anything that will make it difficult for me to deliver Muscle shoals to him, which I am trying to do." Mr. Coolidge denied categorically that he had ever made such a statement and asserted that his only desire was that Mr. Ford's and other bids should be fairly considered. He pointed out that his Muscle Shoals policy...